Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 16, Number 46, DeMotte, Jasper County, 4 October 1946 — MACHINERY FOR FARMS TO STAY SHORT [ARTICLE]

MACHINERY FOR FARMS TO STAY SHORT

No Prospect of Relief Until After 1947 Is Agriculture Department View Washington, Sept. 30 The Agriculture Department predicted today that supplies of fanim machinery, attachments and repair parts for the 1947 planting and cultivating seasons will show little if any increase over the last year. Continued shortages of mater- j ials were said to be affecting production adversely. Output for the last year was about 5 per cent below the rein- I tively favorable level of the previ- ' ous year, but world have been better, the department said, except for labor-management disputes in major machinery plants. The department said further improvement in the farm motor in 1947. It said also that supplies of tires of all types are expected to be ample. It predicted that prices of most .items of new maheinery will be , higher than this year. The Department also forecast a higher level of farm prod action costs in 1947. It shid farmers’ “out-of-pocket” operating expenses mounted from some thing less than $6,200,000,000 in 1940 to nearly $11,300,00G,000 .. in 1945. Further increases were reported for 1946, but they were not evaluated in terms of dollars.